The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.
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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
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